Little Ashes (2008) on Netflix
R20081h 52mBiographyDramaRomance
In 1922 Madrid, eighteen-year-old Salvador Dalí arrives at art school set on becoming a great artist. Poet Federico García Lorca and aspiring filmmaker Luis Buñuel draw him into their circle.
- Netflix3.1/5
- IMDb6.3/1010,088 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes24%
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Plot summary
Madrid, 1922. Eighteen-year-old Salvador Dalí enrolls at the Residencia de Estudiantes, a modern home for Spain's brightest students, with his mind fixed on becoming a great painter. His mix of shyness and exhibitionism catches the eye of poet Federico García Lorca and would-be filmmaker Luis Buñuel, and the three become the core of the city's avant-garde set. Federico brushes aside the attentions of Magdalena, a writer in their circle, while Salvador finds himself pulled toward Federico's magnetism. Feeling shut out by the pair's closeness, Luis leaves for Paris to pursue his own ambitions. Salvador takes Federico to Cadaqués, the family's seaside town, for the summer.
Cast
- Adria Allueas Guardia
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Little Ashes (2008)
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- Salvador Dalí said Federico García Lorca was "madly in love with me" and "tried to screw me twice", but that he himself was not homosexual and was not "interested in giving in".
- The film dramatizes a long-debated question: whether Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca had a love affair. Historians and biographers have argued over their relationship, and in Little Ashes the sexually repressed Dalí tries and fails to consummate it.
- Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca exchanged numerous letters between 1925 and 1936, now held by the Fundación Federico García Lorca in Madrid and the Fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí in Púbol. Lorca's infatuation with Dalí is widely acknowledged, though the painter denied a relationship for years.
SPOILER
Federico García Lorca's homosexuality seems to have given an extra thrill to those who assassinated him in 1936 in repressive Spain, and his biographer Leslie Stainton has suggested the killers remarked on his sexual orientation.
